Starship Enterprise

...2009 at 8:00 am 0 comments Star Trek is a science fiction series that premiered in 1966, and chronicled the voyages of the star ship Enterprise. Its five-year mission was to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new...

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...a huge Trekkie, I was really worried when they decided to go back and start the series from before Kirk was the captain of the Starship Enterprise. I was so pleasantly surprised by what J.J. Abrams did with the characters and storyline.

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...did in theaters this summer. And yes, for those concerned Trekkers out there, it does pay homage to the many sagas inspired by the Starship Enterprise. It just does so in a way that keeps all the beaming-up accessible to non-fans -- those who...

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A woman requested funding to make automatic ice cube dispensers. One man wanted Lottery money to build a replica of Star Trek's Starship Enterprise so that lonely people could meet in a "safe" environment. A man requested GBP500 to respray...

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...apparel branding will involve the mining of TV and movie properties. Now the other shoe has dropped with a full line of Starship Enterprise-influenced high-top sneakers beaming down to the shelves of a Payless near you, and Payless.com.

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...Quinto) are here not as trusted friends but suspicious rivals, adding an amusing layer of tension to the well-worn story of the Starship Enterprise. Extras on the two-disc DVD and Blu-ray include a digital copy of the film, commentary with...

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...makes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance during a battle scene, where he can be spotted through a hole in the bomb-damaged Starship Enterprise. It turns out that R2-D2's guest spot is something of a recurring theme of films...

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...could be found in online ads for Apple computers. The screens of the next generation of Macs showed the gleaming form of the starship Enterprise. Never mind that its design dates from the mid-1960s and was originally conceived other-side-up,...

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...or an atmosphere above. "It's about the physics," Stern said. Stern likes to talk of a Star Trek test for planethood: "The Starship Enterprise shows up at a given body, they turn on the cameras on the bridge and they see it. Captain Kirk...

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In my favorite "Star Trek" episode, Capt. James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise encountered humanoids from a planet embroiled in war over an issue as clear as black and white. Literally. The planet Cheron is locked in a...

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